Athena Tacha papers 3518 Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse.
Last updated on November 09, 2018.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
March 6, 2012 Athena Tacha papers
Table of Contents
Summary Information...... 3 Administrative Information...... 5 Related Materials...... 5 Controlled Access Headings...... 6 Collection Inventory...... 7 Correspondence...... 7 Education...... 8 Miscellaneous...... 10 Photographs...... 11
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Summary Information
Repository Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator Tacha, Athena, 1936-.
Title Athena Tacha papers
Call number 3518
Date [inclusive] 1942-2000
Extent 3.4 linear feet (3.4 linear feet, 12 boxes, 2 volumes )
Language Greek, Modern (1453-)
Mixed materials (00003074)11 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003075)12 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003076)1 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00003070)7 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003071)8 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003072)9 [Box]
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Mixed materials (00003066)3 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003067)4 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003068)5 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003069)6 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003077)2 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00003064)1 [Box]
Mixed materials (00003065)2 [Box]
Abstract Athena Tacha (1936-) is a Greek American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist who received degrees from the National Academy of Fine Arts (Athens, Greece), Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio), and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). In the 1960s she settled in the United States and became a professor of sculpture at Oberlin College. Her commissioned pieces are installed as public art across the United States and in several other countries as well. This collection contains mostly early correspondence, education materials, publications, and artwork from 1950 through the 1980s, although it spans from 1950 to 2000.
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Administrative Information
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
March 6, 2012 Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse.
Sponsor This collection was processed during the Digital Center for Americana Project Phase II, which was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
Access Restrictions This collection is open for research.
Related Materials
Related Archival Materials note At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Brancusi's Birds by Athena Tacha, 1969 (NB933.B7 S63) At other institutions: Athena Tacha collection at Oberlin College in Pennsylvania. http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/holdings/ finding/RG30/SG262/biography.html Athena Tacha papers at the Archives of American Art. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/athena-tacha- papers-6242 Oral history interview with Athena Tacha, 2009 December 4-6 at the Archives of American Art. http:// www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-athena-tacha-15749
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Controlled Access Headings
Form/Genre(s)
• Photographs.
Personal Name(s)
• Boskoff, Georges. • Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957. • Dine, Jim, 1935-. • Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. • Morris, Robert, 1931-. • Sklavos, Gerasimos, 1927-1967. • Souriau, Etienne, 1892-1979. • Spear, Richard E., 1940-.
Subject(s)
• Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949. • Greece--History--Coup d'état, 1967 (December 13). • Greece--History--Coup d'état, 1967 (April 21). • Greece--History--Coup d'état, 1973 (May 22-23). • Greece--History--Coup d'état, 1973 (November 24-25). • Greek American art. • Greek American women. • Outdoor sculpture--United States. • Sculptors--Greece. • Women sculptors.
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Collection Inventory
Correspondence.
Box Folder
1950-1963. 1 1
1953-1991. 1 2
1950s. 1 3-7
1950s. 2 1-2
1950s-1963. 2 3-6
1962-1963. 2 7
1965-1966. 3 1-2
1965-1966, 1971. 3 3
1968. 3 4
1969-1973. 3 5
1960s. 3 6
1971, 1975. 3 7
1973, 1975. 3 8
1976-1984. 4 1
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1980-1983. 4 2
1988-1989. 4 3
1980s. 4 4-7
1980s. 5 1
1999-2000. 5 2
1990s. 5 3
Education.
Box Folder
Fellowships and scholarships: Paris, 1957, 1961, undated. 5 4
Fellowships and scholarships: United States Information Service and the 5 5 Greek National Scholarships Foundation, 1960-1963.
Immigration: Visa file, 1965. 6 1
Jobs: "Letters from Paris seeking jobs for returning to U.S.A.", 1962-1963. 6 2
Letters of recommendation and diplomas (duplicates), 1958-1963.
Box Folder
Notes and papers: Aesthetics and art history notebooks from Paris, 1961-1963. 8
Notes and papers: Aesthetics and art history notebooks from Paris: Loose 6 4 items removed from notebooks, 1961-1963.
Notes and papers: Architecture notebook, 1959. 6 5
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Notes and papers: Art history, 1955-1961, undated. 6 6
Box Folder
Notes and papers: Art history courses at Oberlin College notebook, 1960-1961. 1-2
Box Folder
Notes and papers: Draft of PhD thesis, "L'Art du Relief", 1961 June 10. 6 7
Notes and papers: Bronze casting workshop notebooks, 1957. 9
Notes and papers: Computer programming, 1969. 6 8
Notes and papers: Contemporary art seminar with E. Johnson, 1961. 6 9
Notes and papers: Egyptian and Babylonian art and history, undated. 6 10
Notes and papers: "French syntax and idioms" notebook, 1953. 6 11
Notes and papers: Gothic architecture, 1965. 6 12
Notes and papers: Latin grammar, 1950s. 6 13
Notes and papers: Medieval art, undated. 6 14
Notes and papers: Michelangelo senior seminar notecards, Oberlin College. 6 15
Notes and papers: Michelangelo senior seminar notes, Oberlin College, 6 16 1960.
Notes and papers: Michelangelo senior seminar papers, Oberlin College, 6 17 1960.
Notes and papers: Modern art, undated. 6 18
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Notes and papers: Musicology notebooks, 1962-1963. 10
Notes and papers: Summer school at the Alliance Française, Paris, 1956. 7 1
Miscellaneous.
Box Folder
Certificates and awards, 1949. 7 2
Clippings about Athena Tacha from newspapers and magazines, 7 3-4 1970s-1980s.
Drawings, 1942-1946. 7 5
Drawings, 1943-1952. 7 6
Box Folder
Drawings: Brancusi's "Birds", undated. 1
Drawings: Figures, sculpture, and architecture, 1956-1958. 2-4
Box Folder
Lectures and publications, 1957-1958, 1961-1962. 7 7
Lectures and publications: Early writings, 1943-1952. 7 8
Lectures and publications: "Waterfronts as Site Sculpture" draft, 1985. 7 9
Manuscripts, 1957-1958. 7 10
Musical scores, undated. 7 11
Photocopy of Constantine Tacha biography, 1956. 7 11A
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Notebooks: Lists of books read and various notes, 1950s. 11-12
Photographs.
Box Folder
Photographs, 1957-1960. 7 12
Photographs and postcards, 1956-1960, undated. 7 13
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